@GodsEnWrath
strange grief is cry's og party made of childhood friends
the clan name itself is footprints, which is cry's idea to slowly retire from the frontlines since he couldnt keep up with his monster childhood friends, this however backfires and levels his lvl higher since he is leader of the clan and everyone feeds him exp + this is a misunderstanding comedy so alot of the plot revolves around MC being "unlucky" but still "lucky" in the same time and everyone misinterpretate his actions so he just becomes more and more "op/genius" to everyone else
originally footprints is made up of similar ranked parties and ppl of similar age (arc brave + strange grief and 3 other parties formed the first gen of footsteps) and are considered the first gen/first step of footprints
overtime the clan itself grew larger and more parties joins and the 2nd wave of treasure hunters inspired by the first gen are called genesis step, this is what i understood from the novel anyways